...I hate writing emails on my phone. It's just randomly sends it when I'm not done. Ugh. Here we go again...
I sure hope I don't run into copyright issues with that..... Oh well...
Well my faithful follower. The new year has past. But has still not begun. One may wonder how this is possible. But in the land of the Asians anything is possible! (it's not wrong to say that...? Right? Man being politically missionarily correct is hard. I don't even know the standards. Also how much do I care? I'm sure ya'll already know the answer to that)
THIS JUST IN: MY MOTHER LIED!!! The only correct way to conjunct "you all" is Y'all. Since I am stubborn I will from here on out just be using yall. Hah.
I hope my dad doesn't feel bad that I never talk about him... Oh well. He's pretty cool too. He doesn't lie though. Go him.
Anyways, man where to begin with this week. Literally I get to my email each week and I'm like "Wow I've got so much to say because I did so much this week!"
Now I'm here and don't know what to say.
Well, I guess we can start at Wednesday, that sounds like a nice ambiguous day to choose.
So Wednesday I went on exchanges with Elder Gibson. He's only been out 5 weeks longer than I have. That means that we are both very very young. So we set some massive goals and we went out for the day. After someone 放鴿子 us. Stood us up. We were like, well we have a lot of time. Let's see if we can get 30 people today.
So we went and freaking talked to 37 people! It was pretty lit! Even though neither of us spoke the language we still got out there and we set up some people up for the future! One of them was going to meet us on Friday and it was going good! It was a good time and I really learned a lot!
During our Language Study time though we were studying in a Starbucks and all of the sudden "GOOD THINGS FALL APART" by Jon Bellion started playing! Both of us at the same time just like perked up and we're like "No Way!" we were both way hyped cause he's also a big Jon Bellion fan. That pretty much made my day. Was it a blessing from God to give me a way to hear a song I love with out breaking the mission rules?
Yes.
Yes it was.
However, I was not ready for the foreshadowing that the song provided.
The week then enduded up with every single one of our lessons 放鴿子. We got stood up like 10 times this week. All of our friends were like "nah" and things just really didn't go well. Like at all.
You know that kind of sucks. Like a lot.
But no one said it was going to be easy.
And it's not.
But Ima be here and just go as hard as I can. Cause that's all that God asks of us. God only asks for us to try. Each day to be better. To do better and be better each day.
Coincidentally that's the name of a talk that our Prophet gave recently. I recommend that everyone take a look at it.
We all need to repent. Repentance is just continuing. It's just trying to be more like Jesus. It's changing things about ourselves to become more like Him.
So this is me calling everyone to repentance :) Man being a missionary is fun. I can just be like, yall are sinners so repent. Isn't that fun!?
Anyways that's enough of that.
Somethings funny, your bois still got the charm! Low-key knocked into a house with two younger females and got their numbers. Definitely not cause they were interested in my companion. It was me. I swear.
Well maybe it was the gospel.
Anyways hopefully the sister missionaries can bring them to salvation. Who knows.
CHINESE NEW YEAR
So this week begins the Chinese New year. What does that mean for me? It means that I'm going to be eating like I'm on a cruise and still do missionary work. It means that since I'm on the coast and people don't super care about laws they will just close down random parts of streets to do plays and fireworks.
But like seriously, we're just driving around and then suddenly you can't take a road cause they're doing a performance. Like laws kinda go out the window on the streets. It's way crazy.
More about that next week.
For know I think that's about it. I've spent today cleaning again. I've spent over half my Pdays on Island cleaning. Apparently it's a message from God telling me that I should change my profession.
Well! Thank you all for taking the time to read this! I love that I get to do this, and I love all emails, pictures, videos, and things that get sent to me! It makes me way happy!
Have a good week everyone! Keep up the good work!
Love,
Elder Baird
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Something about socks:
What does it mean to grind? To really grind? I learned a little bit about that this week.
After one day of being stood up 5 times, we were just done. So we went and knocked. And we knocked. And we were like, "God, we are going to go until we are able to get someone to let us in and become a friend.
And so we did. We put our trust in the Lord and we went for it. And we knocked for a loooong time. Knocking is generally not a huge thing in this country. But we went and went.
It was getting late and we were like, dang. It's late. But we kept going. And then all of the sudden we were invited into a house and they were like "sit! Here's some food and water! We know you don't drink tea so have this." and so we just sat there and taught them. And it was way good! And it was a huge miracle! So that way way cool!
God blesses us when we work for it. It was a cool experience. So keep up the grind! Keep up the grind for God!
Pictures are few this week. Next week will have more. Probably. But here's a funny video.
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